PFLAG Meeting

PFLAG hybrid meeting March 9 features LGBTQ safety issues
PFLAG Florence welcomes teacher and facilitator Erika Leonard via Zoom to members and friends for a fact-filled, eye-opening program around the issue of LGBTQ+ community safety leadership on Monday, March 9. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Florence United Methodist Church but will also be available online for those unable to attend in person.
Erika Leonard is the community education director for KidPower International, of which PridePower, an adult/teen safety program and sponsor of the program, is a subsidiary. The live online workshop will cover topics like staying calm and confident when you don’t feel like it and preventing, avoiding or de-escalating dangerous situations. The program also covers setting and protecting personal boundaries and managing emotional triggers to think clearly. The program hopes to help participants to stay emotionally safe in the face of rude, thoughtless, threatening or offensive comments.
To join online, email pflagflo@gmail.com to get an electronic link to the program. The program is approximately one hour, followed by Q&A. To attend in person, Florence PFLAG’s regular meeting site is located at the corner of Second and Kingwood, one block west of Highway 101. The event is free and refreshments will be available.
PFLAG Florence is one of more than 400 chapters in the largest national organization serving the LGBTQ+ community and those who love them.